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Ina Ganguli interviewed on Connecting Point about new study on how women network and land leadership roles

Faculty member Ina Ganguli was interviewed on the local public affairs television show Connecting Point about a new study on how women network and land leadership roles. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that women used both a wide network of personal contacts, and in addition, they depended on a close inner circle of other women who could offer support and gender-specific job advice.

Carly McCann discusses on Connecting Point research on employer retaliation against those who report sexual harassment in the workplace

A new report by UMass Amherst’s Center for Employment Equity presents research findings that nearly two-thirds of employees who report workplace sexual harassment face retaliation from their employers. Co-authors Carly McCann, a doctoral student in economics, and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, professor of sociology, discussed their findings in a segment of the nightly news program Connecting Point.

Book Launch: Shadow Networks: Financial Disorder & the System that Cause Crisis

Mythreyi Krishnan

Shadow Networks Book Cover Join Professor Michael Ash in celebrating the publication of a new book by him & Francisco Louçã—Shadow Networks: Financial Disorder & the System that Cause Crisis. Ash & Louçã challenge pervading narratives of the financial crisis to argue that economic collapse is ingrained in the shadow networks of finance.

Event Details: Thursday, February 14, at 5 pm at Amherst Books (8 Main Street, Amherst, MA 01002

PhD alumna Susan Holmberg writes about co-determination in NYT opinion

"Renewing America’s experiment with co-determination would help workers feel valued, and that is a necessary starting point for change."

Susan Holmberg, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and UMass Amherst Economics PhD alumna writes in The New York Times about the long history of co-determination in America and why it should be embraced.

Read full article here

Economics major hopes to take venture to market through Innovation Challenge win

Economics major Ethan Lazar ‘19, and fellow student Matthew Kaplan, are competing in the 'Innovation Challenge' to launch their business. The team were awarded $2,000 of equity free-funding, and the opportunity to continue to the next round of the competition, bringing them one step closer to the $65,000 grand prize. 

Unfair Global Tax System Makes Sustainable Development Impossible

Leonce Ndikumana is interviewed about how the global tax system allows capital to flow from developing countries into global tax havens. He says globalized corporations take advantage of the patchwork of taxation policies that leads to loss of revenue for poorer countries where natural resources are mined or collected.

Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture 2018

Please join the Department of Economics for the 2018 Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture on October 18 at 6pm in the Campus Center Auditorium (free and open to the public)featuring Dr. Christina Romer, Ph.D., the Class of 1957 Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. From January 2009 until September 2010, Professor Romer served as Chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. The title of Dr. Romer's lecture is The Aftermath of Financial Crises: What Happens and Why.

The Lecture will be available live.   Live Stream

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